Eureka-Bowdle Patriots

September 05, 2007

Record last season: 11-15. Head Coach: Jason Bishop, Northern State graduate, seven years in coaching, second year at Eureka-Bowdle. Toughest Opponents: Sully Buttes. They have a terrific program built and are coming off a great season. Returning starters: Liz Hoffman, Kristen Kramlich, Allison Hieb, Morgan Gruebele, Cristin Turner, Judon Mehlhoff. Returning letterwinners: Hoffman, Kramlich, Hieb, Gruebele, Turner, Mehlhoff, CeiAra Stickland, Ellen Thomsen, Becca Weiszhaar. Season outlook: We have high expectations for our season. We lost only one player who played a significant amount of time to graduation. The girls on this team are very willing to learn and improve where necessary. We will return a lot of experienced players. Last year allowed us to gain that experience and play in many close matches. We have a very athletic core group of players. We need to be more consistent in our serving. Last year we gave away too many points on missed serves. We also need to finish points stronger, earlier in rallies.